Mac Language Settings?

Question

I'm considering buying a Mac but heard that they don't include a full localized Russian version but rather just supports the cyrillic script. So my question then what's the different between full localized language versions and Mac's cyrillic script version?

Answer 1

The difference is that application menus (including the Finder application which is roughly the same as Explorer in Windows) and message dialog windows will be in English or whatever other language you can choose, but not in Russian.

When you choose Cyrillic script option in the International pane of System Prefernces, you have three choices of behaviors: Russian, Bulgarian and Ukranian. You will have the same three choices for Input method in that same International pane. This means you can type in Russian and read documents and web pages that were typed in Russian (if your browser is also setup for Cyrillic script) but the menu bar wording will be in something esle, such as English.

On the other hand, for example, if you wanted Simplified Chinese, then you would have full menus in Chinese also. That's the difference. I suppose money was saved in the OS design by not including full Russian menus since almost all Russians can navagate the menus fine in English and many mainland Chinese would have difficulty.